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This might be the stupidest post that I’ve ever made on this blog (and that’s sayin’ something). I’ll let you, Dear Reader, judge for yourself.

It’s sort of my friend Kevin Bussey’s fault (even though he’s a totally great guy :-). His blog, Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee, is one of my favorites: not just because he offers up a lot of terrific insight as a brother in Christ, but also for his fondness of posting about the more whimsical news of the world. And he especially enjoys sharing the occasional stories about “apparitions” of Jesus or Mary materializing in loafs of bread, lava lamps etc.

So yesterday Kevin had this item about what is supposedly a picture of Jesus in a car dealership’s door. It reminded me of something that I’d promised to do for Kevin over the past few months. And seeing that picture well… I ...

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I reported last April about the seething rage that a lot of “conservative Christians” were already venting against Barack Obama. And speaking of which, over the past few days I’ve heard even more thoughtless fury out of Ron Baity’s WPIP… but there’s gonna be more about stuff like that coming in the next few days, so I’ll hold my piece ’til then. Well unfortunately, my guess then that this rancor would “get worse”… is rapidly coming to pass now that Obama is officially the President of the United States of America.

I could comment on any number of items pertaining to this. But for now I’m going to direct my thoughts toward what one prominent “Christian writer” is suggesting, because in the past several hours I’ve seen his very hypocritical gesture spread like wildfire across the Intertubes. Joseph Farah, founder of WorldNetDaily, is actively encouraging Christians in America to ...

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Sue Everhart, chairlady of the Georgia Republican Party, has said that John McCain is comparable to Jesus Christ…

Georgia Republican Party chairwoman Sue Everhart said Saturday that the party’s presumed presidential nominee has a lot in common with Jesus Christ.

“John McCain is kind of like Jesus Christ on the cross,” Everhart said as she began the second day of the state GOP convention. “He never denounced God, either.”

Everhart was praising McCain for never denouncing the United States while he was being tortured as a prisoner of war in Vietnam.

“I’m not trying to compare John McCain to Jesus Christ, I’m looking at the pain that was there,” she said.

What’s worse in my mind is that Everhart is ascribing divinity to the United States: basically saying that America is like God.

So between a South Carolina church trying to connect Barack Obama to Osama Bin Laden and ...

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